Posts tagged "sex work"

"When I first started playing [Belle/Hannah], when I first read the script, I found it very hard to believe that those kind of women in that profession really [could be feminists]. I was quite judgmental about it. I thought 'I'm not entirely sure that there's any way that you could be that way and…

Call girls: they're talented writers! First there was Dr. Brooke Magnanti, whose identity only became known after her blog, Diary of a London Call Girl, became wildly famous and spawned a book and TV series. Now there's an anonymous East Coast-based woman going by the nom de plume "Charlotte Shane." "Charlotte…

College students need to support themselves somehow. And in China, it's becoming increasingly popular to make a living selling your body. Prostitution in China is on the rise -- particularly among college students -- and girls get paid not on a nightly basis, but a yearly fee. Annual fees start around $5,000 for more homely…

NFL star Lawrence Taylor has been indicted on charges of rape after allegations that he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old prostitute. The former Giants player was arrested on May 6 for allegedly having sex with a teen at a Holiday Inn in New York. If convicted, he faces four years in prison. […

Another day, another sports star accused of rape: Lawrence Taylor, a former football player for the New York Giants, was arrested today for allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl. The girl, whose identity will likely be kept secret because of her young age, was allegedly prostituted out by a pimp at…

The following is an excerpt from Whip Smart: A Memoir, by Melissa Febos, who we recently interviewed about her four years working as a dominatrix at a New York City dungeon. Here, Febos is about to have her very first "domination session" with a male client at the dungeon, for which…

A dominatrix: all of us know what one is. But let's be honest: few of us actually know a woman who earns her living as one (that we're aware of, anyway). But you'll become, ahem, intimately familiar with one after reading the recently published book, Whip Smart: A Memoir, by Melissa Febos.

The following is an excerpt from Some Girls: My Life In A Harem, by Jillian Lauren, a memoir of the author's experience as a sex worker hired by the prince of Brunei. Day tumbled into night tumbled into party time. I could barely change my shoes fast enough to keep up. Whe…

Move it, Easter bunny. There's a new bunny in town — a Playboy bunny, that is. In honor of its 50th anniversary, Playboy will sell a limited edition set of bunny costumes similar to those worn by waitresses at Playboy Clubs. The $67 bunny costumes — complete with ears and a bunny tail…

Exotic dancer Quansa Thompson is suing her former employer, a D.C. strip club called The House, for unpaid wages under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. Thompson says the club only paid dancers $20 per day and they are allowed to keep whatever was left of their tips after giving the DJ and bartender…

The gloves are off! Ashley Dupre, the high-priced escort who brought down former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, lashed out at other women in a blog post. The 24-year-old said women—NYC ladies, especially—are hypocrites who judge her for having been a call girl, but they still date rich men and bleed their…

When hookers in Brazil want to protest discrimination, they take to the seams. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, prostitutes in Rio de Janeiro walked the runway as models for Gabriela Leite's Daspu label ("daspu" comes from the slang term "das putas" or "the whores"). The former prostitute started the label four years ago "a…

Michael Jackson’s past was checkered, but as Movieline.com pointed out, his death created an even more public spectacle: people prostituting themselves on Craigslist for MJ memorial service tickets. Talk about "Dangerous!" Man, everyone is trying to get their piece in the King of Pop’s passing. And boy were they perverted about wanting someone…

If you haven't heard, HBO has a new dramedy, "Hung," that's about -- well, the title should tell you something. The series focuses on a divorced father in Detroit who loses his wife, his kids (custody, that is), and his manhood. Also? He has a big penis. In order to get by, he…

If times were tough -- I mean, really tough -- would you sell your body for money? In her Salon column "Pinched," Tracy Clark-Flory reports that more women are entering the sex industry due the recession, including Marie, a 30-year-old former white-collar professional with a degree, who now operates out of hotel room…

Leanne Eisen is a Toronto-based artist who creates dollhouse scenes that depict the human condition. One of her most intriguing photo-based series is "Play," for which Eisen built miniature replicas of brothel interiors. While most dollhouses contain scenes of perfect domesticity, Eisen's rooms allow viewers a downsized peek inside the mostly…

You can take our dignity but not our porn! New York's Governor Paterson is pitching new taxes to help the state's $14 billion budget deficit. Among them: a $10 tax for strip club patrons and tax on Internet downloads for web porn. Similarly, Texas pols want to place a $5 "pole tax" which…

As the economy goes soft, some women are seeking to earn extra cash as freelance sex workers. As it turns out, there’s a market for powerful career gals who can dominate a man’s world -- literally. According to Tracy Quan’s "Kinkonomics," recently laid off ladies are freelancing as professional dominatrixes. Although sex worker…

With over 16 million members, Second Life is the largest user created, 3-D online game world that features everything from malls to vampire castles, plus all the amenities of a faux-universe to play out your fantasies. It’s no surprise then that the sex market is strong and hi-tech hookers are cashing in --…

Taking a page out of those girls you went to high school with who can't stop smugly posting every detail of their perfect lives on Facebook, Lady Gaga shaded America's youngest grandma Taylor Swift just perfectly on Twitter yesterday. It all started when Jaime King's unborn child's godmother tweeted about Gaga, using the preferred…